[meteorite-list] Happy Birthday L'Aigle

From: Linton Rohr <lintonius_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:44:51 -0700
Message-ID: <3824C5FB883F48D491213FF64190341F_at_D190TH71>

I'll second that, Bernd!
Having recently acquired a nice specimen,
I'd better start working on a birhday cake. <g>
Linton

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From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
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Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 12:26 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday L'Aigle


Happy Birthday, L'Aigle!

Best wishes,

Bernd

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BIOT J.-B. (1803b) Relation d'un voyage fait dans le d?partement de l'Orne
pour
constater la r?alit? d'un m?t?ore observ? ? l'Aigle le 6 flor?al an XI
(Baudouin,
Imprimeur de l'Institut National de France, Thermidor, An XI, Paris, 47
pp.):

"Ils entendirent comme un coup de canon, ensuite un coup double plus fort
que
le pr?c?dent, et celui-ci fut suivi d'un roulement qui a dur? environ dix
minutes,
et qui ?tait accompagn? d'un sifflement (...) Tous les paysans furent tr?s
effray?s
(...) Les plus grosses pierres ont ?t? lanc?es si violemment, qu'elles sont
entr?es
dans la terre au moins ? un pied de profondeur. Elles sont noires
ext?rieurement,
et gris?tres int?rieurement: il semble qu'il y ait dedans une sorte de
m?tal"
(Extrait du rapport de J.B. Biot ? l'acad?mie des sciences en 1803).

Translation:

They heard something resembling the report of a cannon ball, then a double
report more
violent than the preceding one, which was followed by a rolling thunder
lasting for about
two minutes and which was accompanied by a whistling sound (...) The farmers
were all
very frightened (...)
The largest stones had been hurled down so violently that they penetrated
the soil to a depth
of at least one foot. Their exteriors are black, their interiors grayish:
there seems to be
some sort of metal inside (Extract from Biot's report to the Academy of
Sciences in 1803).

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